Twitter will damn your soul, Saudi cleric says

[Arabian Legend]

The popularity and use of Twitter is increasing in middle east, Waleed bin talal owns 200-300 million share in twitter.It has become much faster way of communication and news spread quickly through twitter.

#Saudi Arabia world’s 2nd most Twitter-happy nation

JEDDAH: FADIA JIFFRY
Monday 20 May 2013
Last Update 20 May 2013 3:00 am
Saudi Arabia currently ranks second among the world’s fastest growing countries on Twitter, with a 42-percent increase in the number of account holders after Indonesia, which rose to 44 percent, according to GlobalWebIndex’s ‘Stream Social: Quarterly Social Platforms Update.’
“Twitter appeals to the Saudi user. He just wants to say what is on his mind, float an idea, debate and discuss it and jump onto a new subject,” said Bilal Hallab, social business strategist and general manager at the Social Clinic, a social media and business consultancy firm based in Jeddah.
“We see these phenomena in many countries. In the US for example, Twitter is by far more common and preferred than Facebook.”
Hallab adds that the majority of Internet users in Saudi Arabia are Twitter account owners, with three million users. Facebook has more than six million users. “The growth of Twitter over the past eighteen months in the country is phenomenal.”
According to a report released by the Social Clinic in 2012, Saudi Arabia topped the list of Twitter growth penetration throughout all four quarters of 2012, with a growth rate exceeding 3,000 percent versus the global growth rate of 300 percent. “What is more surprising is that Riyadh held 10th position as a city worldwide in terms of tweets per month,” said Hallab.
Riyadh alone accounts for 50 million tweets. Saudi Arabia has the most Arabic tweets among the other Arabic-speaking countries and it accounts for 30 percent of the entire Arabic tweeting population. This makes Arabic one of the top 5 growing languages on Twitter, according to the Social Clinic report. “Twitter allows for short fast live-updates and conversations that spread information at the quickest speed and with the widest reach,” said Manal Assaad, a social media strategist and marketing consultant at the Manalyst. “Facebook has more users than Twitter in Saudi Arabia (5+ million users on Facebook users and 3+ million active Twitter users by the end of 2012), but Twitter is a more open social network that allows users to discover what’s going on around them, follow what others are doing or talking about, and lets them communicate with other users freely even if they don’t know them.”
Assaad said that starting or joining conversations on Twitter with strangers is much easier than on Facebook considering its very public nature.
It is also a more fun and lively source of news that is more accommodating to the nature of the Saudi youth, where important and relevant news come to them instead of them having to look for it.
The largest age group of Twitter users in the Kingdom is the 25-34-year-olds. The second largest group is the 18-24-year-olds.
“From my personal experience, I can say that Twitter can give the youth a great boost in terms of data discovery and knowledge, ideas and value exchange,” said Assaad. “Twitter allows the youth to follow local and international professionals who share their knowledge as well as useful tips and articles in small doses on a frequent basis.”
Assad herself has over 11,000 followers on Twitter.
She added that Twitter is also a great platform for crowdsourcing, where, with just a single tweet, you can reach hundreds — and even thousands — of users who can answer your questions, give you ideas and opinions, solve your problems, or at least spread the word about your needs.
“When used properly and strategically used to build and engage a community, Twitter can help support your business, whether you’re a start-up trying to raise awareness about your brand, or you’re a big brand aiming to support your customers with speed and spot potential customers.

#Saudi Arabia world

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

#Saudi Arabia world’s 2nd most Twitter-happy nation


#Saudi Arabia world

Keep tweeting homie

اليوم لقيت السكويرتي يغازل في الدوام
والله فاتكم
الحبيب قاعد يتميلح مع طالبة امتياز ههههه


& I was like WTF

 

[Mosamania]

Are the mutuai3s (religouis police) allowed to search through a persons mobile in the KSA, I heard that they hold great authority, basically Mini-gods walking around in the streets.

Nope they can't anymore, they have to get a warrant signed from a judge or your consent to search anything or basically do anything.

The new law introduced last year, many Hai'ah (Mutawa3 just means religious zealot not the terrorist organization AKA Hai'ah) still don't abide by it, but all you have to do is go to the liberal media to take them down like the dogs they are. Al-Watan, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Al-Hayah, Okaz, all of which wakes people up to the danger of the stupidity of Hai'ah.

 

[Arabian Legend]

Keep tweeting homie

اليوم لقيت السكويرتي يغازل في الدوام
والله فاتكم
الحبيب قاعد يتميلح مع طالبة امتياز ههههه


& I was like WTF

خلة يفلها ياحبيبي ماينلامم والله من المزز اللي حوله///

Maaan even my grandma has twitter account, who doesn't these days.

 

[Mosamania]

خلة يفلها ياحبيبي ماينلامم والله من المزز اللي حوله///

Maaan even my grandma has twitter account, who doesn't these days.

I don't. I hate social networking.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

خلة يفلها ياحبيبي ماينلامم والله من المزز اللي حوله///

Maaan even my grandma has twitter account, who doesn't these days.

BTW, Twitter is not popular in Jordan, Facebook is better , I created an account once but never used it.

 

[A.Rafay]

خلة يفلها ياحبيبي ماينلامم والله من المزز اللي حوله///

Maaan even my grandma has twitter account, who doesn't these days.

Your grandma must be following kim kardashian on twitter

 

[Aamna14]

The religious leaders across the world have always misrepresented or rather have abused the concept of Fatwa. If a religious cleric gives a fatwa its his opinion ultimately he might be far from the truth which is mostly the case now a days. Its because of the masses who blindly follow such fatwas that these people have the authority to utter all nonsense in the name of religion and still be referred to as religious scholars.

 

[Mosamania]

The religious leaders across the world have always misrepresented or rather have abused the concept of Fatwa. If a religious cleric gives a fatwa its his opinion ultimately he might be far from the truth which is mostly the case now a days. Its because of the masses who blindly follow such fatwas that these people have the authority to utter all nonsense in the name of religion and still be referred to as religious scholars.

This is a TWITTER JOKE ACCOUNT. But western and Iranian affiliated media is quick to jump on it like leaches. But no matter two can play this game.